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Bodle

BODLE or Boddle (said to be from Bothwell, the name of a mint-master), a Scottish copper coin worth about one-sixth of an English penny, first issued under Charles II. It survives in the phrase "not to care a bodle."

Note - this article incorporates content from Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, (1910-1911)

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